December 12, 2019
The cold, december air flows through the trees. The sign for Deity In Death is still in the park, illuminated by the candles. The moon is extremely bright tonight. Ross saunters in, followed by Max, followed by Elizabeth, then the others. A new young lady slowly walks towards the park, shivering slightly with the cold. Kiera is sitting at a table, eating some pizza. Lucille, Autumn, and Roxy(?) are hanging out on the stage.
Ellie approaches the new girl, Rosalyn, curiously. "Are you new?"
"YYeah, I was told to come here by Lucille"
Elizabeth pauses, leaning in and whispering. "You should run. She's... she's not safe." She says nervously
Rosalyn's voice becomes deep and gravelly for a second, her eyes switching to a reddish hue, "Oh, trust me~ I'm well aware, little one~" The eyes and voice switch back as she coughs some.
Elizabeth pauses, taking a step back. "W-what was that??" Rosalyn stuffs her hands in her pockets, looking down and then at Lucille. Elizabeth just kinda walks away and finds a seat. Kiera is looking at everyone, noticing Rosalyn. Max is sittin at a table lookin decently happy with the occasional snap to staring at a random person. Rosalyn sits down at a table. If she's in anyone's peripheral vision, they'd see something behind her. A very vague reddish black human-ish shape. Ross is sweating nervously in case Cupid shows up and Max gets a crush on him. Margaret shows up. Keeping her head low trying not to make eye contact as she sits at the nearest table.
Kiera walks up to Rosalyn, offering a rock to her.
"Uhhh thanks!" Rosalyn takes the rock and puts it in her pocket
"Do you like knives" Kiera asks, voice quiet and nervous.
"Knives are cool, yeah," Rosa gives a sincere smile
Kiera smiles back. "Wanna see some of mine?"
"Sure!"
Ross mutters. “i wish i still had knives.”
Kiera takes a couple out of her jacket, showing them to Rosa. "Do you like them?"
Rosa's eyes and voice do the FUNNY THING again; "Ooh~ You've certainly got some fun toys there, haven't you?"
Kiera looks confused. "Why are you talking different?" She asks but nods. "I have about 47 knives"
"A large collection~ You're quite the interesting little thing~"
Kiera is BLUSHING. "I-I um- uh- T-thank you-"
Ross is jealous. “i had 136 knives once. beat that.”
Kiera turns to Ross. "Oh! Thats super cool!" They smile genuinely. Margaret says silent, observing everything she can, breathing heavy in a panic of thinking why the heck she though coming back was a good idea. Ross just pouts, salty that they foolishly sold all their knives.
Max mutters happily, "i have a gun!"
Ross smiles. “yes you do, it’s kinda hot.”
"Well, I..." Rosalyn stands up, revealing a sheathed sword that... everyone could've sworn wasn't there before. She unsheathes the sword, a claymore made of pure obsidian with ruby and garnet pieces near the handle and embedded in the blade. It's pretty large too. "I have this~"
"You're so unbelievably gay," Max snaps to staring at the fancy sword. Ross looks at the sword in awe. Big knife. BIG knife. Margaret just looks at it, crossing her fingers that this person is on the right side
Kiera eyes widen and she starts CLAPPING. "OH MY GOD THATS SO COOL THATS SO COOL CAN I TOUCH IT PLEASEEE"
Rosalyn lowers the claymore so that Kiera can touch it. "Go right ahead, little one~"
“Can I bite the sword?” Ross blurts out.
Kiera very gently touches it, amazed and in awe of the blade. "I've never see anything so beautiful..."
"Don't fuckin bite it" Max mutters to Ross
“Alright, bite me.” Ross replies.
"Not here?!" Max elbows Ross. Rosalyn tilts their head, smiling widely at Kiera, turning the blade for them
Lucille looks around at the frankly kind of disappointing crowd. "Oh well. Anyways, tonight's meeting... hidden somewhere in the park is a deaddrop. You will use this deaddrop, as well as the clues from previous meetings (u/batwingsfebruary), to find another clue to further your progress." She sighs, leaning on Autumn, who's playing rock paper scissors with Roxy(?). "You may start whenever. You have until 10."
Rosalyn sits back down, the claymore seeming to vanish. "Wonderful~"
Ross looks at Max. “you wanna team up, love?” Margaret stands and heads to the clearing to find the deaddrop.
Max smiles and giggles, "Absolutely, you take the lead." Ross smiles and starts walking into the clearing, Max following along. Ellie follows the others.
Kiera looks back to Rosalyn. "Do you also collect stuff??"
Rosa's voice returns to normal. "I do!"
"What do you collect?" Kiera asks, tilting its head
"I collect stories about paranormal stuff," she laughs, "Like, mothman, aliens, stuff like that."
"Oo!! Thats super cool!" Kiera exclaims. "Wanna see more of my knives?"
"Sure!"
Kiera takes out a few more, showing Rosalyn. "Did you know if you put a frog in water and slowly turned up the heat, they wouldnt notice?"
"That's cool! Are you autistic?"
She stares blankly. "I think i've been called that!"
"Oh, cool, same."
"Autism win" Kiera meows.
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Margaret heads here as she looks around for anything that might look off and out of the norm. Ross enters the clearing and avoids the area Margaret is in, taking out a flashlight as he starts scanning the ground and the trees with it. “See anything?”
Margaret does the same with her phone light, “Not yet”
Max is keeping his hand near the revolver, not wanting to be caught off guard but still looking for anything out of the ordinary, "Nope"
Within the trees, there appears to be... black, smooth-looking branches that don't appear to connect to any trees. They just kind of hover around.
Elizabeth walks out, looking around curiously.
“You guys fuckin see that?” Ross asks.
Max's head tilts with confusion as he walks up to the branches thing slowly. "Mhm"
Ross grabs max by the shoulder. “Hey! Not so close!”
“Yea I see that.” Margaret tries to grab one. Margaret immediately feels EXTREMELY sick, like she needs to start coughing. Her nose begins to bleed as well, accompanied by a headache.
“Oh shit!” Ross exclaims.
Max starts walking backwards, "Fuck that." Margaret starts coughing, looking to the blood dripping down as she lets go of the branch. Ross agrees nonverbally and backs away from the 'branches'. Margaret looks to them with confusion and a bit of fear, trying to see if there is anything else other than the branches. There's something white embedded in a tree stump.
Elizabeth goes to Margarets side. "Are you okay???"
“I… I think so” Margaret takes a deep breath and grabs the white thing. It's a bag. There's something inside it. Ross rips a piece of cloth from their sleeve and tie it around their face in case there’s gases or spores coming from the stuff. There's a USB and a note. Margaret reads the note. It's just the 💌 emoji scribbled on it
Ross peers over. “Is that the thing?”
“Yea I think so. Anyone have a computer on them?” Margaret asks. Max picks up the usb and inspects it closely for any markings. It has the same symbol from the cameras. Ross does not have a computer, but they pull out a black light and shine it at the note. It's covered in stuff. Not like, words. Just substances. Not sure what they are. Probably blood. Hopefully. Ross audibly gags. Max pockets the usb as he starts rifling through his pockets.
“Did someone um. use the note?” Ross asks.
“Hm? What?” Margaret looks around for anything else.
Ross shines the black light at the branches, and they glow. “Whaaat?”
"Cum branch cum branch," Max mutters as he pulls out a google pixel 3 and plugs in usb adapter and then the usb stick.
“That’s whack” Ross mumbles, squinting at the branches.
Max looks at the files that are on the usb stick, "Sure is"
Ross takes his lighter out and lights a dry stick which he uses to poke the branch, “What are you finding on there, love?”
There's an application labelled KalMia and a txt file labelled SCARLETT.
"Stuff" Max opens the txt file and starts reading it. It's a link. https://twitter.com/scab_rabbit, "Leads to a twitter, scab underscore rabbit," Max mutters as he closes to the txt file and opens the application.
“That feels eerie.” The app runs some sort of program and closes.
Max thinks nothing of it and unplugs the usb from his phone and repockets his phone and usb, "Check the twitter I just said for any hints" There's no tweets on it.
“Can I see the USB to see if I can find anything when I get back to my place?” Margaret asks.
Max tosses the usb to Margaret, "Knock yourself out"
Ross has a narcoleptic attack and collapses, asleep.
“Thanks- Ross? Ross you ok?" Margaret asks. Ross is asleep, they mutter something in louisiana french.
Max sighs and picks Ross up bridal style, "Fucking sleepy boy."
“Take care of them will you?” Margaret sighs.
"Yeah i got them, don't worry i'm gonna head back to the tables and wait for them to wake up," Max carries ross back to the table area. Margaret keeps looking around. The further she walks, the more she hears those strange booms from when she met Lucille... Margaret keeps looking around, hoping she is not a cat in this curious situation. Her ears begin to ring as she starts to see something from within the darkness. Margaret turns on her phone light to try and see. There's someone standing there. They appear to be a young lady, but they're wearing some kind of mask completely obscuring their face. They're also wearing a hoodie and jeans. They're convulsing. The branches appear to be wrapping around their limbs.
Margaret tries to find a stick or something to get the branches off of them. Getting close to them results in the same sickness as earlier, if not more intense. Margaret backs up and tries to think on what to do to save them… screw it, Margaret runs to her, grabbing the branches she can and throwing them to the side, trying to stand her ground and save this person. Margaret passes out. Elizabeth notices and pulls Margaret away, picking her up and taking her to the table area.
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Max walks back in carrying ross and sits down at a table. Autumn walks up to Max. "You."
Max looks at them, "What about it?"
"Have you ever........................................ eated a stick......."
"No..........have you?!"
Autumn grins devilishly. "Soon."
"Have fun i guess" Max shrugs
Ellie brings back an unconscious Margaret. "I don't know what happened-"